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February 15 -- San Antonio and Austin are using their municipal power companies to push solar electricity generation, and other Texas cities should support state policies boosting solar power, Austin-based Environment Texas says in a study released Thursday. >>View Article

February 15 -- Today, nearly 20,000 Coloradans work in the clean energy sector and the equivalent of more than two large nuclear reactors' worth of renewable energy capacity is either online or in the queue. >>View Article

February 14 -- An energy company developing the nation’s first offshore wind project is among the growing number of companies expressing interest in the federally designated wind-development area 27 miles off Virginia’s coast. >>View Article

February 14 -- The House unanimously approved a bill 422-0 Wednesday that would remove barriers for small hydropower development and could eventually expedite permitting for other hydropower projects. >>View Article

February 14 -- Investors were fleeing Tesla (TSLA) stock earlier this week in response to a critical review of its new Model S sedan. Now the company is firing back to defend the Model S and its line of electric vehicles. >>View Article

February 14 -- Rhone Resch, of the Solar Energy Industries Association sees a robust clean-energy industry as important to America's future. Here is what he said about the State of the Union address. >>View Article

February 14 -- First Wind, a renewable energy company headquartered in Boston, commended President Obama for the clean energy vision outlined in his State of the Union address and called for policies that will level the playing field in the competition between the renewable energy industry and the fossil fuel industry. >>View Article

February 13 -- President Obama proposed a program in Tuesday's State of the Union address that would divert some revenues from federal oil-and-gas drilling into research for alternative fuel technology. >>View Article

February 13 -- The President calls for more US renewable energy production and action on climate change. In this year's State of the Union address, he acknowledges the tremendous progress of the US renewable energy industry and the importance to compete in the international marketplace, while noting that US renewable energy production has doubled in the last four years with wind accounting for nearly half of all new power generation capacity in 2012. View Speech>>

February 13 -- In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama talked up alternative energy. Not only did Obama tout the solar and natural gas industries' recent gains, he also talked up the amount of wind energy that's now fueling the country. >>View Article